Apparently, it's a bad idea to change the currency so that the blind can tell one denomination from another -- even the National Federation of the Blind agrees:
Apparently, it's a bad idea to change the currency so that the blind can tell one denomination from another -- even the National Federation of the Blind agrees:
Wow, Jan. 27. Seems like the library has been closed for renovations forever and that it never would re-open. With Parkview moving most of its operations north, and Elmhurst High School targeted for closing no matter which school plan is adopted, it's nice to know that at least one thing is staying where it was. The older I get, the more I'm like my cats: Quit moving my stuff around! And listen to Library Director Jeff Krull talking about the new place:
Give me the money, give me the money, don't care where it comes from, just gimme, gimme, gimme. Honestly, I'm wondering if our universities would even call pitting Christians against lions a bad idea if they got a cut of the gate:
The state's university presidents said Thursday that Gov. Mitch Daniels' plan to privatize the state lottery and use the proceeds for scholarships and top professors could transform the state's higher education system and economy.
Some startling information from Channel 13 in Indianapolis: Holiday spending often results in holiday debt. Tonight at 11: Christmas eating often results in Christmas indigestion. Love those public-service stories.
Gov. Daniels discovers a way to get even worse press:
Gov. Mitch Daniels paused during a recent news conference to lecture reporters on the proper way to ask questions.Daniels said he was "bemused" by media types who ask about the practical and controversial details of his proposals rather than the wonderful reasons he has for offering them.
They could have thrown Ray Nagin in, too, and it still would have been 99 cents too much:
Call it a sign of the times for Louisiana's embattled governor: A chance to dine with Gov. Kathleen Blanco fetched a winning bid of $1 at a recent fundraising auction hosted by a group of business leaders.
One of the biggest mass murderers of recent times is about to be loose among us again:
LANSING, Mich. - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June, state Corrections spokesman Leo Lalonde said Wednesday.
To get out, Kevorkian promised he would not assist in any more suicides. Uh-huh. He can no more quit what he does than a child molester can.
Between $25 million and $995 million — that's what taxpayers could foot for Fort Wayne Community Schools' districtwide building renovation project.
Schmidt Associates, an Indianapolis-based firm hired by the district, on Tuesday also recommended closing Elmhurst High School and Ward Education Center, an alternative school for sixth- through 12th-graders.
I dunno. I live alone, so a little background noise is nice once in a while:
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says television makes it too easy for people to tune out family and friends during the holidays.
Glen Sparks, a communications professor at Indiana's Purdue University, says television creates so much background noise that it can be difficult to really hear what people are trying to say.
Can someone explain the point of a "Buy Indiana" policy if we're just going to turn around and outsource so many state functions to out-of-state and even out-of-country firms?
Based on prior estimates, about 62 percent of state spending went to Indiana companies. Since then, Daniels and the Department of Administration have instituted an effective "Buy Indiana" policy that has raised that total by 22 percent.
WASHINGTON - Democrats tidying up a cluster of unfinished spending bills dumped on them by departing Republican leaders in Congress will start by removing billions of dollars in lawmakersâ?? pet projects next month.
Yes, it was a depressing political year. But there were some funny moments and some (mostly unintentionally) funny quotes. My favorite quote:
Even if the typewriter turns out not to be one of Ernie's, it's cool that people even care:
Hoosiers continue to get disrespected by those in surrounding states, and no one even seems to care:
Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to formally announce today that Indiana and Illinois will study construction of the Illiana Expressway.
Daniels is expected to discuss a "memorandum of understanding" between the states that will have Indiana take the lead on an initial corridor planning study for the route.
A look inside the Indiana State Prison courtesy of an MSNBC interview with a documentary producer:
Contraband is a big problem at ISP. It's amazing the things these guys in IA manage to uncover; everything from weapons to drugs, cell phones and even a home-rigged power drill that was apparently made by an inmate preparing an escape. His plan was to drill through his cell wall.
Yes, by all means, we must include Iran in our efforts to straighten out the mess in Iraq:
Iran hosted Holocaust deniers from around the world Monday at a conference examining whether the Nazi genocide took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister condemned as a "sick phenomenon."
Kofi Annan, the Oil-for-Food sleazebag and friend to dictators everywhere, presumes to lecture the United States on accountability?
First, in today's world we are all responsible for each other's security. Against such threats as nuclear proliferation, climate change, global pandemics or terrorists operating from safe havens in failed states, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others.
I don't understand what the big fear is here:
Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
Either we've run out of exotic animals to study in the wild, or we have a whole new, lazier breed of biologists:
Squirrels hit the genetic lottery with their chubby cheeks and bushy tails. It's hard to imagine picnickers tossing peanuts and cookies at the rodents if they looked like rats.
But good looks alone don't get you through Chicago winters. Nor do they help negotiate a treacherous landscape of hungry cats, cars and metal traps.
Today's quiz: What did President James Madison sign on Dec. 11, 1816?
Answer: the congressional resolution making Indiana the 19th state. Happy 190th, everybody.
